On Sat, 2014-06-28 at 16:21 +0000, John Colvin via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> > An MPI backend for std.concurrency would be a game-changer for > > D in certain scientific circles. Pragmatically, I think this would be a good idea… > Note: I don't have much love for MPI, but it's the only practical > option on many clusters currently. …philosophically MPI sucks. The problem is that C, C++, Fortran, Chapel, X10 all assume MPI is the cluster transport. Fortunately in the Groovy, GPars, Java, Scala, Akka world, there are other options, ones that are much nicer :-) Sadly, I don't have time to contribute to any constructive work on this just now. And I ought to be doing a review and update to std.parallelism… -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@winder.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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